Where Are the Women? A Walk in the Woods
The most significant female character here is the male protagonist’s wife… and she is introduced in a scene in which she is, literally, vacuuming.
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Where Are the Women? True Story
The supporting female adjunct to the male protagonist is so generic that I couldn’t even tell whether she was supposed to be a romantic partner or a sister.
Where Are the Women? Irrational Man
A female coprotagonist alongside the central male character balances out supporting women who are little more than mothers and lovers.
Where Are the Women? Hot Pursuit
All the positives that come from having both a female protagonist and a female antagonist get negated by how these women are ridiculed for their gender.
Where Are the Women? Huevos: Little Rooster’s Egg-Cellent Adventure (Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos)
The name of the lovestruck female love interest for the male protagonist is almost never uttered. His name is mentioned constantly, natch. What a metaphor!
Where Are the Women? Grandma
This is the rare film with hardly any men onscreen; the only significant two exist within the story as nothing but romantic and/or sexual adjuncts to women.
Where Are the Women? The D Train (aka Bad Bromance)
Women are present here only to reassure men that they are wanted, desired, and looked after, no matter how miserable or lacking in self-esteem they are.
Where Are the Women? Dope
All of the women here function solely as support for the male protagonist: as a happily helpful friend, as an object of lust, as an understanding mother.
Where Are the Women? Aloha
As is all too typical in cinematic depictions of men and women, women come fully formed, and only men have room to grow and change.
Where Are the Women? Little Boy
The only female character with any presence is the mother of the young male protagonist… and she barely even does any mothering.
